Here’s a quote to start the day from the New York Times: “I want to have as few people touching our products as possible,” said Dan Mishek, managing director of Vista Technologies in Vadnais Heights, Minn. “Everything should be as automated as it can be. We just can’t afford to compete with countries like China on labor [...]
–Former aide Rich Galen on Newt Gingrich’s faltering presidential campaign
Mitt Romney will skip Iowa’s vaunted Ames straw poll. (Nevermind the chicken suit from ’07.) The New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC will crowdsource the Palin e-mails Alaska is releasing today. The Biden debt ceiling talks pick up speed.
As I report in this week’s magazine, several current and former advisers to President Obama would like Congress to pass more short-term stimulus, but no one inside is quite saying that publicly just yet. “I don’t have any new policy announcements to make,” White House Spokesman Jay Carney said on Thursday, when asked about one [...]
Reuters reports: “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday.” Clinton’s longtime communications aide, Philippe Reines, is denying the story and a senior administration official tells TIME the Reuters “rumor” [...]
Updated, 8:45 PM Newt Gingrich vowed to continue his presidential bid on Thursday afternoon after a slew of campaign staffers staged a mass exodus that raised questions about the future of the campaign. “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring,” Gingrich wrote in a statement [...]
While Newt Gingrich and his wife are off on a two-week Greek cruise to recuperate from three exhausting weeks of campaigning, his political operation is imploding. The AP and Politico are currently reporting that six senior campaign staffers–including campaign manager Rob Johnson and spokesman Rick Tyler–are quitting en masse.
You may have seen that Bill Kristol said yesterday that two reliable sources have told him Rudy Giuliani “intends to throw his hat in the ring” for President. It’s a little hard to take the idea seriously, given what an epic fiasco Giuliani’s 2008 campaign turned out to be. (Rudy started out with sky-high name [...]
Sarah Palin this morning posted a facebook note entitled, “Another ‘WTF’ Obama Foreign Policy Moment*” In it she talks about an op-ed by former CIA director James Woolsey in Foreign Policy Magazine that accuses the Obama Administration of freely giving away missile defense technology to the Russians. “President Obama wants to give Russia our missile [...]
OK. Enough. I must admit I’ve enjoyed the furious Weinerian punning. It’s been a magical summer story for the New York tabloids, and victimless as well, unless you count the shmuck at the center of it, who is yet another male victim of testosterone poisoning. Wiener’s fate should be determined by his constituents. Period. But [...]
